PSY10000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Institutional Review Board, Equal Opportunity, Blind Experiment
7 Nov 2017
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Most of the time, correlation corresponds to the relationship going in both ways. There is no specific cause or effect: third variable problem: Confusion causes researches to mistakenly inference a causal relationship. Nothing can be concluded about the causation. Sometimes correlation between two conditions happens but causation is influenced by a third variable that relates to the two previous conditions: descriptive studies, nothing is manipulated, case studies: Most of the time this individual has suffered damage to his/her brain or has a unique brain or mental condition. Potentially insightful since brain damage is usually examined. Underlaying principle: does everybody have this condition or is it unique to one individual: observational studies: This is good for descriptive accounts and initial stages of a project: surveys and questionnaires: This is basically pulling data out of participants: research factors, avoid bias by counterbalancing the biased condition. To do this, some researches repeat a question over and over in different structures.
